The British Journal of Politics & International Relations

We are delighted to announce the 2012 winner of the BJPIR best paper award:

2012 winner
Terrorism and Political Science
Matt Haunstrup Qvortrup

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FREE online access to key articles recently published in BJPIR

Terrorism and Political Science by Matt Hanstrup Qvortrup
This article presents evidence to show incidents of terrorism in Western Europe occur more frequently in countries with majoritarian political systems than in countries with consensus political systems.

Treating the Symptom Not the Condition: Crisis Definition, Deficit Reduction and the Search for a New British Growth Model
Colin Hay explores the implications of crisis discourses for responses to the crisis, concluding with an assessment of the prospects for the return to growth under a new British growth model in the years ahead.

Do Celebrity Politics and Celebrity Politicians Matter?
John Street asks what it means to take celebrity politics seriously looking at the practices of New Labour, theories of celebrity politics and current and future empirical research agendas.

Killing Civilians: Thinking the Practice of War
Maja Zehfuss critiques the principle of non-combatant immunity on the grounds that it enables what it seeks to prevent, namely making the killing of civilians acceptable.

Inside New Labour
Andrew Gamble examines the memoires of the three chief architects of New Labour—Blair, Brown and Mandelson, illuminating the different styles and policy priorities of Blair and Brown, why the New Labour years ended in such a major defeat, and how the New Labour project lasted as long as it did.

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